Where is yerba buena

Keep in your garden and make this wonderful tea any time! See our recipe below! Yerba Buena Tea. Bring water to a boil and add the fresh yerba buena leaves. Reduce heat and simmer for minutes with a lid on the pot. Add the cup of ice and bring the tea back to a low boil for minutes. Cool, strain, and refrigerate to serve cold. Can also be enjoyed hot or with honey! Find yerba buena and many other plants at the Sutro Native Plant Nursery! Volunteers are welcome at the nursery on Wednesdays from ampm.

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The plant's appearance could best be described as delicate, with tiny leaves on very slender stems that creep along the ground. It does not have rhizomes but roots itself as it spreads. The leaves and flowers have a lovely fragrance and are both edible. The leaves make a great tea. It does best in a moderately moist woodland setting where summers are cool and there is moisture from fog drip.

Also looks good in a rock garden climbing around boulders. YBI is thought to have been uplifted by faulting along a branch of the Hayward Fault approximately 1 million years ago. The Island is a rock outcrop comprised of greywacke sandstone interbedded with shale and siltstone of the Franciscan formation. Bedrock on the Island is covered by thin sandy deposits from the Pleistocene over 20, years B.

The texture of these soils ranges from fine sandy loam to gravelly loam, reflecting the underlying bedrock. The Island supports several microclimates that influence the distribution of the plant species and assemblages present.